Item Database:Ammunition & Charges:Bombs
Bombs, though extremely expensive, can deal battleship- shattering blows, if launched correctly. When launched, bombs fly for 10 seconds with the velocity of the ship that launched them, then detonate, causing huge amounts of damage to nearby ships. Properly deployed bombs can take out entire squadrons of ships. The only drawback is that you either need a fast and expensive ship to deploy it and get out fast, which would suffer because the enemy could kill it before sucessful launching, or a heavily tanked slow ship, which would need to be extremely close to the target. Obviously, if you launch a bomb and keep on course, the bomb travels on course with you and basically explodes less than a few millimeters from it, so to avoid that a ship has to turn completely around, which causes it to lose speed, and therefore becomes vulnerable. The pros of bombs is that for only a few million ISK, you can destroy entire squads of frigates or pop all but the most heavily tanked battleships.
--LonTas 5 22:41, 28 March 2010 (UTC)